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About Tom Cronin

Many of you may have heard that Clark Gracie won in his division last week at the 2013 IBJJF Pan Tournament. The victory was incredible and Clark deserved it after putting in countless hours of hard work really turning up his competition training over the past year. Clark was able to secure a choke in the last minute of the match to put Marcelo Mafra to sleep and win the tournament. We are all very proud of Clark and welcome his return to teaching on Thursday, April 4th at 6:15. Clark’s final match can be seen below:

One of the biggest events of the year, the IBJJF Pan 2013 will be a challenge for all of its competitors, as the best in all categories will arrive ready to fight. Carlson Gracie Temecula is sending 7 of its most dedicated team members to compete this weekend:

Tom Cronin – Brown Belt competing in the Senior 1/Middle division, will be competing at 11:00 am on Saturday.

Orlando Alonso – Brown Belt competing in the Senior 1/Light division, will be competing at 11:00 am on Saturday.

Chris Garcia – Blue Belt competing in the Adult/Middle division, will be competing at 1:15 pm on Thursday.

Colin Lewis – Blue Belt competing in the Adult/Light-Feather division, will be competing at 10:20 am on Thursday.

Justin Hardin – White Belt competing in the Master/Heavy division, will be competing at 7:00 pm on Wednesday (tonight!).

If you are free for any of these times, and want to see some incredible competitive brazilian jiu-jitsu and support your team mates, please go the tournament and cheer them on! And if you can’t make it to the event, you can still watch matches online at BudoVideos: http://online.budovideos.com/login/

On January 6th, Paul Silva came to Carlson Gracie Temecula and put on an amazing seminar for all of our kids. With the years first big competitions coming up, the little ones are ready to take on a big season, and for a lot, their first Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu tournaments.

The Carlson Gracie Team would like to thank Master Carlson for coming out to Temecula and giving a great seminar. The team is already putting the amazing techniques to use and we can’t wait until the next seminar. Pictures from the seminar and belt promotion will be coming soon!

August 8th –
After a lot of anticipation, students showed up for a great night of training at Clark’s first class on Wednesday night. We started off with a hard NoGi training session and transitioned into a second Gi class after everybody was good and warmed up. Clark will be there for another great night this coming Wednesday. See you all there on the mat!